How to Access

The VES Participating Optometrist Directory  lists the current practice and location address details of practices and the names of the optometrists and ophthalmologists at each practice location in country Victoria thatparticipates in the Victorian Eyecare Service. The practices are listed in the directory alphabetically by town. Practitioners are listed at each practice location.

This Victorian Eyecare Service (VES) Participating Optometrist Directory  should be read in conjunction the VES application form and information brochure which provides more detail about the Victorian Eyecare Service.

From this directory, Victorian pensioners who live in country Victoria can choose their VES practice and practitioner and make their own appointment for an eye examination.

All optometry practices, optometrists and ophthalmologists participating in the Victorian Eyecare Service are approved by the Australian College of Optometry.

Further information about the Victorian Eyecare Service may be obtained from

Victorian Eyecare Service
374 Cardigan Street Carlton 3053
Telephone:  1300 303 125 (cost of a local call excluding calls from mobiles) or 03 9349 7434
Facsimile:    9349 7498

In the Melbourne metropolitan area, the Australian College of Optometry offers a similar service for pensioners and others on low incomes who live in metropolitan Melbourne. Please refer to Eye Care Services in Metropolitan Melbourne.